The Classic FM Chart - Sunday 2 October 2016, 5pm

2nd October 2016, 18:55

The Empire is striking back - but the Lost Songs of St Kilda are solid as a rock at No.1

The Lost Songs of St Kilda is the best-selling classical album for the third week running. But there's a potential threat on the horizon in the form of Star Wars Episode 4 - A New Hope , the original soundtrack, which has zoomed from No.25 to No.2 in just one week.

Elsewhere there's a high new entry at No.10 as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra celebrates the life and works of its much-loved Composer Laureate Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise brilliantly portrays the beauty of the rising sun after a boozy celebration, using bagpipes to close in a blaze of light. The album also includes two pieces for solo guitar – played by Sean Shibe – vividly conveying the menacing flashes of Hill Runes and the unaffected tenderness of Farewell To Stromness.